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C ; J ULV ? j sj:]ON Ei>l:0ATI<;N.THE lMIoKTANfK OF EDUCATION'.'i no subplot uf education is only secondin importance Lo thai ot iiodiiikess, ultu -I?>members <>i inc despisedraee, so loug shutea: fr.?m the benign and ennobling iiiflu?r?vos ut H reline J culture, we ough : io have:i deeper sen e o' tts neeo*tty io us .-ind ouriili|^;,[iw? ri? those depon lour upon u- forits aeo n Wi*iou, than ii i> possible for thoseto have who are members uf the mest favored chis ? <?f mankind.The history ot our fallers will showthat iu the days vyhen dark in *s broodedover our race tad lian.; us a m:^htv r? ii Iuf>fm the very sp .r?t and asp ranon ot: thoseear lier tiniest they Were not un mi nd fu l thateducation Wa? a pv iee less Lroon. to be reoaired ut the risk of kio in the waning hours o?'ni:;-;;-by iavj ii ir ht ed pine knot torch, onthe avine, e.?bers, OM iii J mansions h earthst*).i?\ anti i? tts iiuportaiice was taus reeogniz ? hy our fathers, and t e intensity o?'heir thir>t for knoWiediro m atv decree* eeo :r.oismiued to us, what then i- ourdure ia th i work, -ot* eduear iou?Wo are areouut.tble beings aad each onei< r.-so maible io: ths-?surv of the t?lea s1 vout rus'ed to his keeping by the Master o?'us al!; ;;iid LU the Work ol education we owea d ey first to ourselves, and secondly tot tiOSe around us. 1It is en cumbo it u&un us, that we should, ..Mea one for rnmselij do ail in our powerto cultivate oar own ??tcliect?. to look uponand stadv the great work o? education asboth a science and an art. That is to sayon tao one huud we should Hi vestiente astar us human reason can. i The deep tilingsof God/? VVe should ruminate IJI the wonders lie has made, and as ministers of theOospel of Je^s Christ, we should know alithat is useful and good.' and should bet??oro?irhiy establlslied ia every ^ood wordand work, and for the reason that our calling is more varied and difficult in its applieat ion than aay other in the WorL.This getting", and being stored with usefa! knowledge, this studying all usefulb? ^.especially die Book o?' all booksthe B b;-\ and those bo. ks lard dowu fortiie guide of candidates for, and the moremature student ia this ministry, in our bookof discipline, is w nat we mean by studyingedueat iou as a seieuc \i >.> the other hand, as an art, we advisethat every mun should strive to possess him>eif with the happy faeuky of applying thisknowledge ?o me work of the ministry, inoilier v/wids. we need working me? ratherthan intellieeMial mon-mitn wji(J h^viiv^j been funneled wi * h knowledge, will give! the people the benefit of it. not only in serinions and lectures, but in buildi ig up the; waste places of Zion both spiritually andi temora'Iv-men who have ideas above andwill labor for else than thc " loaves andfishes n supposed to be contained in thisj Gospel of Christ-men. good--men who willj seek to infuse light and life and Christianj culture into their people wherever they go.railier thrill be seeking after the G oldenI Fleece ' of Argonautic fame.This then is the duty in education, fir^tj to prepare, second to make good usc ol'ourpreparation. Our connection ! laving aneye to this great necessity, has establishedj for the formation of these objects.W rL H Ell F( > RCE JIN IVEltSJ TY.This institution appeals to us to day, inthe first place because it is ours; it is thechild of our own creation, ai id if we forsakeour own, the world may well call in questionthe existaneeof any paternal feeling in us.lt appeals to'our sympathy tor money,in thc second place, because it is in grntt,W of finnis. S:??,0??j)? annually is lessthan any college in America or Europe*} could live on, of tho same grade os our ownWi beribive I niyersitv, and yet our InI st i ? ut ion has Been com [jelled to exist, we] dare noe say live, oil a sum muco 'less thanj this, and utterly inadequate to its demands.Another reason still comes why we shoulds tn ii* ?rt W?be*?bm^ 'ri^that steamier :areiii. ' ^ ^ _ _I becoming more interested iii the Wehiare? o?'the instit inion and consequently of us.I than we a iv ourselves.I Latch*the I mited fetales Government aran?? ed us ?25,- 00,00 and still more recently, thej lau* j Lai Salmon P. (."hase.I 'Jo Of con'?n tied. ^I rm: Derril OF UMK OCEAJS.IiThe ocean is not a bottomless deep,;xI except to the poets and to young ladies,neither of whom are familiar willi the modern improvements in taking soundings. Notj only have skilful seamen known h#w toj reach the bottom and fetch parts of it lt])j to tlie top from great depths, but mathemai tieiaas have ?riven themselves the trouble to? calculate theoretically its average depth.! ?aiion gave this at 21'.) fa'homs. or 144.0j feet ; Laca i ile gives tiona 2 7 H fathoms ;j Laplace, erroneously estimating the meanj elevation of the land at o2S0 feet-threej times the height now allowed by physicalgeographers-thought the waters of thc sea*must be of about equal depth.* Young assigned a depth of 27?>5 lathoins to theAtlantic, and about ;>800 fathoms to the? great South Sea. According to this esti! mate, other mathematicians adel, the PacificI must be at its deepest point fifteen and ai half miles in depth, which is scarcely proba: ble But though little is known of t!:ej greatest depths of the oceans, we do knowj'that their bottoms are of unequal depth,I and that they contain mo LUI tains as well asvast rolling plains; and 31r. Reclus takesadvantage of such soundings as bsve beenmade to illustratnite in a striking mannerj the in?i|uaities of the bottom. ' If. he* rel marks, the waters of the Mediterraneanwere sudden 1 v lowered about 110 tat horns,it would be divided into three distinct sheetsof water ; Italy would be joined to Sicily,Sicily would be united by an isthmus toAfrica, the i>,nuanciles and the Bosphowiswould be dosed, but the outlet of GilbraJtarj would remain in free communication withj the Atlantic Ocean., if the level wereI lowered by about 550 fathoms, the ??geau,the EuxiuG, and tlie Adriatic would whollydisappear, or omy leave in their beets unimportant pools; the remainder of the M edit! erraiiean would be devid?d into several seas*I like the Caspian, either isolated, or eouiniui ni?ating with each other by narrow chan! nels, and the terminal promontory of Europej would be joined by the isthmus of GibraltarI to the mount nus of Africa A depression 0of about Hot) fathoms would leave nothingbut three inland lakes ; - to the west, a trianguiar basin occupying the ceutre of thej depression, bet weeli"France and Algeria;? iu the middle a long cavity extending from.j Crete to Sicily ; and eastward, a hollowj lying m frost Of the Egyptian coast. The^?greatest deptn of the Mediterranean, exj ceediug 2200 fathoms, lies to the north ci'1 the SyrieSj iUmost HI the georuetrieal centreot the basin.-Harpers Aiagazim*.Eating Without an Appetite.Ii is wrong to cat without and appetite, forit shows there is no gastric juice in thesttfmadi, and that nature does not need, and notneeding it, there being no fluid to receiveand act upon it. it remains there only to putri iy. tlie very though of which should besufficient to deter an y man from eating without au appetite it is a mistaken course, forirs only result is to cause one to eat more;when already an amount lias been eaten bcyoud what the gastric juice is able to prcparc.Tho object to be obdamcd is a largeer suppiy of gastric juice, not a large supply otfood; and whatever fails to h : ve any eificier.ey toward the care of dyopeptfe diseases.The format ioq of gastric juice is directlyproportioned to the wear and tear o? th .system which is to be the means of supplying, and this wear and tear can only betheresult of exercise. The (Efficient remedy fordyspepsia is work-out doa* work-beneficial .tod successful in direct pioportiou asit is agreeable, interesting and profitable.[fairs JoftnuU cf UH a I th mPunctuality.We admire punctuality, and we can havebut little patience with those persons wh<are so regardless of it, even in little thingsas to continually break their word, under theimpression that "lt is of no consequence, iwill all be understood, and amount t) thesame thing in the end.;' as many often say jto excuse their everlasting habit ofbei ag falseto their word. There are some people-winiseldom or never do as they promise: Thevhabituate themselves to promise am"thing andeverything without ti?e least thought of fulfillment We could nam? some persons olt his sort, who in other respects are worth)people: but they can not commend confidencebecause their word is not regarded \V-e canmention young men of .promise who are eo:slant ly'iosi??g ground -w*th their acquaintances, solely By beiiig ina fctentiya to their obig?tions ??nd promises in little tilings. Amarwill soon ru u him, self in this war. in all bulu iss ora:is. .c ions in all intercourse wit!fiivud-, in ail engagements, let all do exact ljas they sa v-be punctual at the minute. Thaiis the way to make other people so, and tumake them trust usPUVSIOGNOM?.There is no science in their pretensionsto which nia a kind are mire apt to com! mit grevions mistakes, than in the supposed very obvious one of-physiognomy.1 quarrel t.ot with the principies o? thi?science, as they are laid down by thelearned professors; much less am 1 disj po&d, with some people, to deny its exisi te nee altogether as au inlet of knowledge: that can be depended upon. I believethat there is, or may be, au art to -'readj the intnd's construction in the face.'.1 Butthen, in every species of reading, so muchdepends upon the eyes-*of the reader; ifthey! are blear, or apt to dazzie, or mattentive, or strained with too much attention, the optic power will infallibly bringhome false reports of what it reads- Howoften do wre say, upon a cursory glance ata stranger, what a fine, open*countenancehe has, who, upon second inspection,proVcsHo have the exact features of aknaqe. Nay, on much more intimateocqiKii n tance, how a delusion of this kindsli d! continue for months, years, andthen break up all at once.Ask the married man, wlio has beenso but for a short space of time, if thoseblue eyes, where, during so many years ofanxious courtship, trujh; sweetness, serenitv, seemed to be Witten in eharaterswhich cou kl not be misunderstood-askhim if the characters '-which they nowconvey be exactly the samc$ if for truthhe does not read a duli .virtue ((he mimicof constancy), which changes not, onlybecause it wants the judgment to make apreference; if for sweetness lie does notread animal tranquility, the dead pool ofthe heart, which no breeze of passion canstir into health? Alas! what is this bookof the countenance good for, which, wfcenwv?iave read so lon?:, and thought thatwe understood \ts contents, gives its acountless list of heart b eakins errata atthe end-Charles Low h.Mv friends, if there is anv man whom,from the bottom of my heart, I pity, It isthe man who believes that all mankindare cheats and swindler, aiid who considerslife merely a game of grasping and griping. If there is any young man forwhom I feel a deep regret, as for a mansuri to fail, sure to live and die wretchedj ly, & is the vounj, maa who goes fov?iintoj,th? world, believing that the onlymotives in^this world aro selfish ?motives.D?pend up?? it, that selfishness is notthe jpnly motive imtnis world-nav, % isnot leven the strongest motive.-PfesuleniAndre ic D. Wit* f<\ ti 'THAT is a spurious goo <lnes3Avhichgood for the stj^e of the reward. Thechiifl that speaks the tn^h for ^ie sake ofthe praise of truth Ls not .fruthfuL Themaa who is honest because honesty is thebe<H ?>p?i?y l?as not integrity ia hi.? h?art.He'who?ndeav?rs io be humbly. $nd hojyan| perfeet, tm order to win heaven, has01ik. ? ?o?n^rfeit irelipon.^Go^^ibx^o\m sa??, goodness oecause it is good,truth because it is lovely-this is theChristian's aim. The prize is only anincentive, inseparable from success, butnot the aim itself.-F.. W. liolertson.AMERICAN MORALS.THE grand evils which menace the peerj51e of America now are not to be found inene conuptious of municipal or nationalrule. The reign of the rings is broken, ortottering to its foll, and vile men are hastening to relieve themselves o?. the odiumwhich attaches to it. Even l hose who seekto form new combinations for personal power sad profit Jmd it uphill, work, and fail tomake their hftrigucs fruitful. The wrongwhich no^ront us, and wait with desperationj or tr?Sb?irtg io be rigVed, are "conneetedi wi th tee great Railroad corporationsamt their?ieombiuatio% and J^oaopulies.The people by .whose consent, and tor whosebenefit, these railroad, vv*eie built-railroadto which have been dt#$$ed enrgg^tfisareasof public lands and stupendons^trcrogativesand privileges-are determined io lin vesomething to say abone their niau igemeiit,and deteruii ued .that^la^rx^f^^^hai? b *curtailed Tue ??>rp#atior>*^ wluch havebuilt them and *rt^ a^u^isterfhg -"theiraifairs are man i puk ting or controlling legislatures, and superfluously e inching ?llconnected with them,{while tae armer cannot get a paying return for his wheat at hisdoos, and the cjnsuuier buys his bread at:anexorbitant price. Thefig&t of the pe oplewidi these monstrous powers is begun,and is to be 1113 great tight of the next t.venty yews. The issue is not doubtful, thoughit aiay be long delayed. Little Vermontfiuds to her surpise I hat she has been imposed upon, and havens to d ) her people justice; and it is safe to predict that in fiveyears the railroad kings, and the overbearing monopolies, and the cor po ?tions whichrun railroads for the benefit ol' their mauai gor?, will be s J thoroughly 4 iuvesti^a ed''j that they will lind it fm* tueir interest toconduct ?hoir operations with a degree ol'deferential reference to ilie interest or thepeople whom they have cheated* and oppressed.It seems to us thal there is at this timea very healthy public sentiment. No publiciniquity lives without protest. No wrongdoer sits easy aud unconcerned in his placeTh> old apithy under wrong and misrule isj passed away. The od elements in societyj aud politics aro fall o. hope and courage;j and we believe it to be useeptioie of proof! that uo European country is less dominatedj by corrupt* m eu th II ours, or m ?re willing; aud efficient in the demolition of all formsj of wrong. If there is an apparent differencei agunst us, it is simply because we advertise! our sins more widely than our sister nationslin order that the people may take inteli^encj action against them.-rl)r. t\ 6r. Uoftn/id,I Scribner $fi*r Juli/A NKW PARTY.Since thc advent into Fjouisianna of Senator Mutt. li. Carpenter, we observe symptoms ol'a movement having for its endsandobjects the formation of a new .party Thebasis of'his organization, at this time, israther vague! Iis beginning is heralded by"Roundabout" of the Time in a supposedinterview with a prominent colored andff bite man. Taking it from his standpointof view, and from his trving to write downone class of colored men. and fraternizing>vith another, his plan ison?y tikflrvide the-colored voters, j^o?- .make su^jj$e,leQfcionsfrom them asare not obnoxious^ ul-behave4troublesome, or "pestiferous ' &his kind ofpoliticians. 8 >Now it may be that the ti inf *fys arrivedwhen a political union of the tVo races in jthis State can bcveUfisuimnated, but we*!must b.^a38ow ii to state oar gppans why?re ?io uot believe it will succeed at thistime.First We are satisfied th irt^Pj attempt,as 4>r,?p ^sed hy -'Rounda&O?t^^??^fe T?*ifor oue element of the co?orW ^jfeopl?rpj|?depreciate the rem itcwkr WrU HBfciy*: JiMtwith disaster and d feat. h- f-J ' ^It wiif be impossible for AirtHfe^myfether manaor party c# their/of ei^^?olor?rpolitical creed to limit? this' Si9Mfi^it'-toauy select crrete or class^feit???? Hfetor* Togreater aroa than even New '"wwR?f W'irslittle coterie. Neither can it be maniduiated or controlled by those who have batlittle experience in such great and important matters.Second This movemegt must includethe who.'e State and uot s'inpiy New OrleansTrue, there if might start, but it must'notbe confined to its limits nor to its ceoizensalone. The whola State'must be includedaud the people-nor fifty-aius?; be consulte!.We see it stated that a .committee of fifty (whitey citizens propose to meet fifty colored citizens, and together, propose somepian for a political unionNow it strikes as that this is a curiousway to start this movement Where will thefifty white citizens derive any author itv to iart for so large a voting populado i as is in |Louisiana? Again. How will fifty whitecitizens pave the way for the fifty coloredcitizens to meet with them? We heardwhi st we were in New O rica us lately, thatcerta ii: prominent white gentlemen wereabout to give a spfcndid dinner at .Vi?reau sto someeeruun colored gentlemen of acerI tain persuasion. At this dinner the matter? woiihl be broached, and steps taken to putthe plans into execution. Again we iiavebeen informed personally by certain whitegen? icm m in Xew Orleaiu, thar, there willbe an ope? recognition of our civil rightsaccorded to us That we ?viii have access toail places of amusement, cafes, theatres,steamboats, soloonsj public houses and infact every civil T?glvt windi ts now enjoyedby the G ia eas lian.s This is the written,public pian nf the authors of thc ucw party.What the unwritten and secret part of theprogramme is, ruts not yet been dcvelop&l, |but we w mu? here remark that in our opinion neither the dinner not; the acknowledgement, ofour civil rights will be accepted bytiie colored men, unless it be in the full letter ?nd spirit nf the law, a?d untrammelled with any degrading contingencies. Forinst.mee, of the cofo?? 1 man is asked to igno.v au i Form o ;b uatbusagainst men bornin the North, to curse and revile some ofhis own race to u*o for certa iu me ,* and meaau res, to havj held up to him t ie ackuowledgeai mc of his vii rights only rf he wi!1give up Ins adhesion to Republic i ism andits pr inciples, and follow blindly the courseof his uew allies, without hesitation or fullenquiry. No, if civil rights is be accorded to thi colored men of Louis ian r, let it tothem as free ts the air ot i eav?u untrammelled as the * rab ste ;d "upon his nativedesert, and wi h the fui'est acknowledgement of the Constitutional Amendments,striking dow j aa<i ignoring a 1 disti jetionson account of race, color, or previous condt:i rn, Haswell acknowledgement should befeed tfpon aud enliglitenend sense nf jus- j I.ice, patriotism, and love of humanity and ? anot for the sole purpose of party pdicy. ja? will be pet*teeUy useie?3 for our ;J>?mo- teratic. Fusion, ur Liberal friends to under- ctak:auy intriguing in th's matter Every- tdiing mus?, bo dear to the most careless observer. There are several rocks ou which thanew party ship wi'l undoubledly prccipkateitself upon. Fairly speaking. Democracydepends a good deal upou latitude for itsdegree. Ic olten agrees to try all plaus before il does the only safe one,and generallygoes through the whole catalogue of blunders Jtiefore it will accept the only feasible andreasonable method of setting a difficult problem. We have observed lately that theraia a contemplation of fl ittering one portionot the colored people, and an evident in tentiou of gottiug alon? with them only in the*nw rsrrtypra^^the pre?s iuuirviewers, orat?sw, -fee, speakin- in thei hi^heff terms Qi ^u^gfaft*they have designs, and using fte most coarse,.md repu.sive e$*(^f ^7%^ portions ofthc same, who^ft^^^4o%ose t > ignoreThis loot* more lik?dU'iding the ctloredDeople thanmakingapolitc.il lunion. ?ueiipians wil* never succeed. Seither one party act for ?ll There must fe \ a ftir, openun4etmq$lin^ e^Qkrtiy to tba^?e^fthecolored m^/?^^^^k'^v(ieri \yV\ h ive-?"t Pr$i 1 VjH0^ ff?l mc? nor willtire ta^?/fnfe ?eleeifed\ e<pi\*? the sentiAe?te oP?k&fr rsk?'1 Lef the wl?te nun .S?iim?mm represeat*tive*, aad the e<dore<iii^^Uuiirs,j^4^eja ihe sea^imet?^aad?pini?us of each will ^ the wetter ^rnvedat anet expressed/ Let snek a s^mi' predom inate h<*t?&ijf*9\q uar?fe, 4 trify,.cor ?if union can be ofeted. f4*ee it upon amore secu e basis than for |>axty policy, orby producing Ou. !*?S <A people aga?nsuthe orher, or appealing toan$ diss by dinners, or acknowledgements of rights upoucontingencies. All the ceinred people of thUcountry ask for is a fair chadee in the race^flife, a fair imparti d administration of wis?and equitable fciw^ a full and unrestrictedenjoyment of their religious.edueatrmial an J.politiealiemi ri?hU When these arc attained', it matter not how, peace, nrosj&urity,and harmony will prevail, where &ow it is:conhinou, strife, and fialmo.it chaos.THE ANTHONY VERDICT.Jud<re Hunt i?4 Iiis decision against Mis.*Anthon vT\s riirht to vote, has set at rest th *f olish claim of these crazy women who claimthe right to vote under the I Ith Amendai JUGThe Judge very properly decided that thoState and not the United States has th?power to decide who are voters. After rehearsing the power con ferrexl by the 1 Uh Am intiment the Judge says:The righto ot citizens of the States assuch are not under c msiderat ion ia the 14thAmendment. They stand as before theadoption of the 14th Amendment, and are fullyguaranteed by other providions.The right of privilege of voting i* a rljhtorpt'ic?ttg (irtsiit'j'uii'ler th\ Co?i$f?t'tt?<jriof the SU e and not of the ll. S. if theright belongs to any particu at persons, it isbecaus ; suc^>eJ?fcus is entitled to it . as acitizen of the State w^ere he offers to exercise it and not because of citbmsnrp of the US. If the State of Sew York should providethat nj perron should vote until he hadreached the age of 31 years or after he h idreached the age o?f)0 or that no person havng gray hair, or wp had nor. the possessionif all his limbs, shofld be entitle I to vote ?io not see how it could be held to be a vb.latiuHofany rightderived or held u der thLWtitutioii of th? U S. He might say thatmch regulations were unjust, tyr?iauieal; unit for the re:tu?Hti ?n o?an l?telfig?Mt State;)ut if rights of a citizen are thereby violatedhey are ofthat fundamental Cias.4 % derivedrom hts position as a ci two of the Statemd not tho.se limited rights belonging tolim as a citizen of the United S ates, andmen was the decision in Corfield vs, Carrye*!,f the Legislature et New York shon d repiire. a higher (piilifiettioa in a voter for a.iepresmtative in Congress than is require ibr a voter for a member of the Assembly,his would, ? conceive, be a violation of aight Ix?ongtng to one as citizen of the Unied States. That right is in relation to a?ederal suojeet or interest, and can bi guarnte d hythe Federal (Jsnsti^u'im. The tnbility of a Slate to abridge the right ofvoing ot?account of a race, e>b>r or previousondit ion ol servitude is a Federal gaarau